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<title> | sed s/a genius/an ingenious

alberto_ol 3y ago
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19327/can-the-word-genius-be-used-as-an-adjective https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19327/can-the-wo...
- ineedasername 3y ago
  Yes, I know, proscriptive rules of language w/ grammer etc. are, fundamentally, wrong in so far as they attempt to describe a single unchanging standard that should always be adhered to. Language is fluid and always has been, and grammar is less about being "correct" and more about "that's how it's been done for a bunch of decades". So I'm alright with word usage changing, I just don't like the forms it takes on when it's adopted en masse by content farmers or anyone else generating click-baity titles. This style of use for "genius" is relatively new. A time line of ngram probabilities through to 2019 [1] show almost no usage while a google search [2] with more recent results shows plenty, mostly in the vein of SEO optimized headlines/titles etc. [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=genius+ways&year_start=2010&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=genius+ways&ye... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22genius+ways%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22genius+ways%22
smcl 3y ago
"X is genius" has become normalised. It sounds stupid and lazy to me, but it seems to be popular enough (particularly among YouTubers and Gen Z) that I'm outvoted and in the minority.
- BiteCode_dev 3y ago
  Everything in the US is getting the superlative treatment anyway. When I read something, if it's from UK I x2, if it's from the US I x0.1. If it's from Autralie, I subtract the number of "cunt" and multiply by pi.
  - smcl 3y ago
    This puts an interesting perspective on the concept of the "10x developer"
throwaway290 3y ago
s/genius/promising "genius" and "ingenious" are both super weird for describing own idea. Not grammatically wrong but still wrong. Like if you refer to your own post as "my genius article" I'd assume you are being self deprecating and if not I might start wondering if you're OK. Even if I thought your article was actually genius. Pick anything, promising, practical, and you know for me personally simply "a way" to "revive" a river would sound awesome because I knew zero of those until now.
- burkaman 3y ago
  It's not their idea, they are funding and publicizing another existing organization: https://rewilding-oder-delta.com/en/rewilding-oder-delta/ https://rewilding-oder-delta.com/en/rewilding-oder-delta/. So they did literally "find" someone else's idea and make a video about it. I agree the wording is a little off, but they are German so it might just be a not-quite-right translation. I don't think they are intending to take credit for other people's work, I am a contributor to Planet Wild and they are very clear in their app and videos and everything that they are helping existing organizations.
  - throwaway290 3y ago
    Makes sense! I misinterpreted it

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19327/can-the-word-genius-be-used-as-an-adjective https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19327/can-the-wo...

ineedasername 3y ago
Yes, I know, proscriptive rules of language w/ grammer etc. are, fundamentally, wrong in so far as they attempt to describe a single unchanging standard that should always be adhered to. Language is fluid and always has been, and grammar is less about being "correct" and more about "that's how it's been done for a bunch of decades". So I'm alright with word usage changing, I just don't like the forms it takes on when it's adopted en masse by content farmers or anyone else generating click-baity titles. This style of use for "genius" is relatively new. A time line of ngram probabilities through to 2019 [1] show almost no usage while a google search [2] with more recent results shows plenty, mostly in the vein of SEO optimized headlines/titles etc. [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=genius+ways&year_start=2010&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=genius+ways&ye... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22genius+ways%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22genius+ways%22

smcl 3y ago

"X is genius" has become normalised. It sounds stupid and lazy to me, but it seems to be popular enough (particularly among YouTubers and Gen Z) that I'm outvoted and in the minority.

BiteCode_dev 3y ago
Everything in the US is getting the superlative treatment anyway. When I read something, if it's from UK I x2, if it's from the US I x0.1. If it's from Autralie, I subtract the number of "cunt" and multiply by pi.
- smcl 3y ago
  This puts an interesting perspective on the concept of the "10x developer"

throwaway290 3y ago

s/genius/promising "genius" and "ingenious" are both super weird for describing own idea. Not grammatically wrong but still wrong. Like if you refer to your own post as "my genius article" I'd assume you are being self deprecating and if not I might start wondering if you're OK. Even if I thought your article was actually genius. Pick anything, promising, practical, and you know for me personally simply "a way" to "revive" a river would sound awesome because I knew zero of those until now.

burkaman 3y ago
It's not their idea, they are funding and publicizing another existing organization: https://rewilding-oder-delta.com/en/rewilding-oder-delta/ https://rewilding-oder-delta.com/en/rewilding-oder-delta/. So they did literally "find" someone else's idea and make a video about it. I agree the wording is a little off, but they are German so it might just be a not-quite-right translation. I don't think they are intending to take credit for other people's work, I am a contributor to Planet Wild and they are very clear in their app and videos and everything that they are helping existing organizations.
- throwaway290 3y ago
  Makes sense! I misinterpreted it